Probe begins on another mysterious death in Kanchi Thursday, December 2 2004 19:54 Hrs (IST) - World Time
Kancheepuram:
Police today (Dec 2, 2004) started probing into the mysterious death of a vedic scholar and a devotee of Kanchi Shankara Mutt, whose body was found in a temple tank in Kancheepuram two years ago.
This follows the police assertion that each and every case of death of persons associated with the Mutt would be enquired afresh in the wake of the murder of Sankararaman, manager of a local temple, on September 3.
Kanchi Shankaracharya Jayendra Saraswathi has been arrested as the prime accused in the murder case.
A devotee of the Mutt, Ayyappa Sharma, hailing from Andhra Pradesh, had come to Kancheepuram to participate in a vedic conference and was found dead in the Ekambareswar Temple tank.
Police sources asserted that every single case involving persons associated with the Shankara Mutt would be re-opened and enquiries made.
Meanwhile, the office of the special teams, probing cases against the Seer, had been shifted to an undisclosed place.
The teams were functioning from the all women's police station in Kancheepuram till last evening.
In another development, a special police team had been sent to Andhra Pradesh to arrest Appu alias Krishnasamy, one of the main accused in the Sankararaman case, following reports that he was hiding there.
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